Optimum timing for image-based dose evaluation of 125I and 103Pd prostate seed implants

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1063-1072

  Yue, Ning ^a   Chen, Zhe ^a   Peschel, Richard ^a   Dicker, Adam P ^b   Waterman, Frank M ^b   Nath, Ravinder ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

103Pd; 125I; Edema; Postimplant dosimetry; Prostate implants

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; PALLADIUM; PALLADIUM 103; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDEMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMPLANT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; TECHNIQUE; TIME; ULTRASOUND;

BRACHYTHERAPY; EDEMA; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; PALLADIUM; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC DISEASES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032747146     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(99)00282-5     Document Type: Article

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